Foreign affairs minister says Moldova today makes one more important step bringing closer to accession to EU

Chisinau, 22 April /MOLDPRES/ - Declaration by Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign Affairs and European Integration Minister Nicu Popescu following the ceremony during which Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilita delivered the filled in questionnaire on Moldova’s accession to the European Union to EU Ambassador to Moldova Janis Mazeiks:   

„Today, we made another important step, which brings us closer to the carrying out of our country project – accession to the European Union.  

I have always said during discussions with European officials that our country is a European state, we have a European past, our mother language, Romanian, is an EU official language and our place is in the European Union.  

Following only 11 days, through an unprecedented inter-institutional effort, we have managed to fill in the third stage of our way of 10 steps for joining the European Union: submission of the answers of the first part of the Questionnaire as to the application on accession to the European Union.

This was an important exercise of mobilization and cohesion between representatives of state’s institutions and of the civil society and is a clear proof of the fact that we are a country where the democracy works, the reforms are possible, the transformation processes yield results and our European future is irreversible.  

Our work does not end here; we already work on the filling in of the second part of the Questionnaire, which is related to the EU acquis. We closely cooperate with European Commission’s representatives, with the French Presidency-in-office, with the member states and we are ready to make efforts, in order to fulfill the conditions necessary for the integration into the European family.    

We are happy with the messages of support, which we have constantly received on the last period on behalf of our partners, such as Romania, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia and other EU member countries.  

The team of the Foreign Affairs and European Integration Ministry (MAEIE) has a firm mandate for bringing our country in the European Union. Our irreversible European path and the integration into an area of Freedom, Stability and Peace represent a priority of our diplomacy.’’